Your Evolving Soul: The Cosmic Spirituality of the Urantia Revelation

by Byron Belitsos

Sparks of genuine revelation are contained in many religions and esoteric systems. According to the bold thesis of Your Evolving Soul, we have been graced once again with a new revelation: the little-known Urantia Book that has quietly sold over one million copies in 15 languages. Among the many topics it covers, the Urantia Revelation offers a complex revelation about the evolving human soul that stands alone in its coherence and richness of detail. Your Evolving Soul is the first book to explain this advanced teaching for the ordinary reader, especially as it pertains to personal growth, spiritual living, and the practice of "soul-making." In this book, discover how your evolving soul becomes an immortal vehicle of identity that unfolds your unique personal destiny, now and into the afterlife where you will find God in fullness.

In Your Evolving Soul, one of the world’s leading exponents of the Urantia Revelation succinctly presents the fruit of his life’s work, including:
• A replete description of the UB’s spirituality, contextualized in relation to its evolutionary panentheistic theology and scientific cosmology
• A scholarly introduction that includes comparison with other revelatory and esoteric teachings, both East and West
• A philosophic overview of the psychology of the Urantia Revelation with reference to current thinkers, including Ken Wilber
• A theologically informed description of the UB’s teaching about the soul and spirit, alongside related conceptions in Christianity and Buddhism

According to the account offered in the Urantia Revelation, our evolving soul is the heart of an inner triad of endowments: the unique personality, the Indwelling Spirit, and the soul itself. Of these, only our soul is under our control because of our precious endowment of free will. Our soul is a nonphysical “transcript” of the valuable and salvageable elements of the experiences we choose to have. It is slowly co-created on a daily basis by virtue of our spiritually significant thoughts, feelings, decisions, and subsequent actions, as these are recognized and “immortalized” by the Indwelling Spirit and preserved in and as our soul by this divine action operating from within. These elements of real human experience get converted to personal soul memories and become a potentially eternal possession of the individual, now and into the afterlife—if we choose to ascend.

Belitsos compares these futuristic Urantia Book teachings to traditional East and West descriptions of self and soul, showing how this legendary revelatory text clarifies the key differences between the unique personality, the indwelling spirit, and the questing soul.

Advance Endorsements for Your Evolving Soul:

“Finally! The revelatory, scientific, and evolutionary import of The Urantia Book has been situated within an integrative context for the 21st century and beyond. Byron Belitsos’ wonderful Your Evolving Soul is a clarion call for all of us to (re)engage the Urantia cosmology and consider its provocative meta-view in a new and grounded way. The contribution Belitsos makes to our understanding of soul dynamics is essential readings in these turbulent times.
—Sean Esbjörn-Hargens Ph.D, Founder of MetaIntegral; Executive Editor of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice; Editor, Metatheory for the Twenty-First Century

“Your Evolving Soul is intellectually brilliant and at the same time spiritually resonant. The author supports in a most eloquent way the immense value of the revelatory work, The Urantia Book. He has not only performed a great service on behalf of this revelatory text, but he makes it real and meaningful in the lives of readers.”
—The Honorable Martin Risacher (Ret.)

“Your Evolving Soul not only targets the Urantia Book’s spirituality from the standpoint of the author’s own insightful experience—placing it in a profoundly relevant historical context and destiny—but he also rips apart the very foundations of this normally elusive topic to reveal just how much spiritual consciousness one person can have. As I read Your Evolving Soul I most assuredly climbed the rungs of Jacob’s ladder to soak in the living Paradise Father and his transforming love.”
—Rev. Dr. Rob Crickett, global minister and teacher, and author of over twenty books on spirituality and Christianity

“This extraordinary and brilliant book unveils the Urantia Revelation for those not yet ready to tackle such a lengthy tome. Byron not only makes a convincing case for its relevance today, but also manages to add a history of spiritual and philosophical thought that I found surprisingly interesting. Today's spiritual fashion seems to be pantheism, but Belitsos’ lucid writing will awaken you to richer and far more inspiring ideas about the human soul and the nature of God.”
––Katie Darling, Founder of iWAVE Institute

“Byron has been a good friend of mine for over thirty years, and I very much appreciate his big heart and k...

286 pages, Paperback

Published May 25, 2017

About the author

Byron Belitsos is a leading exponent of The Urantia Book with training in philosophy, psychology, history, religious studies, and theology. He is the publisher, editor, or coauthor of numerous acclaimed and award-winning books, many of which are related to the Urantia Revelation—including The Center Within (1998), The Secret Revelation (2002), One World Democracy (2005), The Adventure of Being Human (2012), and Healing a Broken World (2014). He also co-authored A Return To Healing (2009), a Nautilus Gold Prize winner. He was an inaugural member of Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute, and has been a student of the Urantia Revelation since 1975. His studies have been at the University of Chicago, Naropa Institute, University of California (Santa Cruz), the California Institute of Integral Studies, and Graduate Theological Union at UC Berkeley.